Integrating Capital Project Delivery: An Activity Theory Based Approach

This chapter makes a contribution to IPD theory and practice by answering our research question – where is IPD coming from and going to? We used a case study and AT to analyse and explain how IPD could be more effectively implemented. Our focal point of using AT to consider context and history bridges a gap in the way that IPD is often explained. This approach also helps to better explain how the cognitive-cultural pillar of institutional theory (Scott, 2014) works to help practitioners with their sense-making in complex situations and provides useful guidelines.